Hello all,
In 2018, the Wikidata development team enabled Lexemes, Forms and Senses on
Wikidata, allowing everyone across the Wikimedia projects to gather
structured data about words and languages. Lexicographical data has been
growing, thanks to the effort of the community who added, up to this point,
more than 661K Lexemes in 846 different languages on Wikidata (13 languages
having more than 1500 Lexemes - see statistics here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Statistics/Coun…>
.
In order to make this data usable and useful, one missing feature was the
ability to access and use the data from Wikidata’s Lexicographical Data on
the other Wikimedia projects via Lua modules. This feature has been
requested for a long time by editors, and after a test phase on a few
Wiktionaries, we are happy to announce that *Lua access to Wikidata Lexeme
will be enabled on June 21st on all Wikimedia projects*.
Practically, Lua access means that we created some new Lua functions that
will allow you to *integrate Lexemes, Forms and Senses from Wikidata on any
of the pages of any Wikimedia wiki*. Among many possibilities that this
feature offers, you will be able to create for example: conjugation or
declination tables, stubs of Wiktionary entries, tools displaying the
meaning of a word on Wikisource, and many other things, depending on what
your project needs. Until someone on your project writes a Lua module that
makes use of these new functions and then uses this module on a page,
nothing changes for your project.
In order to use it, people with experience with Lua modules and templates
can look at *the documentation
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/WikibaseLexeme/master/php/md_docs_topics_lua.html>
listing
the available functions*. You can also have a look at simple example
showing the singular and plural forms of an English noun: the template
<https://en.wiktionary.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Template:Wdl-en-noun>, the
module <https://en.wiktionary.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Module:Wdl-en-noun>, the
result <https://en.wiktionary.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/cat>.
Following the deployment of this feature, we are confident that several
editors will start creating their own modules for Wikisource or Wiktionary
- we invite you to *share your experiments on this talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Lexicographical_data>*, so
other people can discover what you have been doing and get inspired.
If you’re involved on a Wiktionary or Wikisource, feel free to share this
announcement around and to try the feature with your community.
If you have any questions or feedback, or if you want to discuss with other
editors, feel free to use the talk page of the lexicographical data project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Lexicographical_data> or the
related Telegram group <https://t.me/+TwVx84TOZfJ0-JvK>. To report a
technical issue, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309593>.
Thanks for your attention and have fun with Lexemes!
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello all,
On behalf of the Celtic Knot Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022> organization
team, I’m happy to share some exciting news about the online event, taking
place in less than one month!
☘ You can now register for the online conference
The registration form
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celtic-knot-conference-2022-tickets-33712523…>
is now available and will remain open until and during the conference,
taking place online on July 1-2. Attendance is free of charge and doesn’t
include the satellite events
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Satellite_events>
that may be organized by individuals or groups before or after the main
program.
Please note that registration is necessary to attend most of the sessions
of the conference, especially the 4 workshops that we offer during the
event.
For each workshop, you have two options:
-
Sign up as an active participant: you will be able to enable your
microphone and camera, share your screen, interact directly with the
speakers, and your participation will appear in the livestream for all
participants (limited spots available) ;
-
Join as a watcher: your sound and image don’t appear on the recording,
and you can interact with others via the chat.
☘ A first glimpse of the program
On the program page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Online_program>,
you can now see what the structure of the online event will look like: a
light program with one track and a lot of time to take breaks and watch the
asynchronous content of the conference.
We selected a few important topics out of the requests expressed in the
community survey, and we are currently working with experienced community
leaders to offer four workshops that will allow participants to upgrade
their skills and help their project grow:
-
Community growth
-
Organize or join an editing campaign
-
Databox, the simple Wikidata-powered infobox
-
Translate Wikidata properties in your languages
If you’re interested in one or several of these workshops, don’t forget to
register
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celtic-knot-conference-2022-tickets-33712523…>
!
As previously communicated, the collaborative part of the program takes the
shape of the “News from the Language Communities” session, where various
groups will present what they have been working on over the past year. More
information about these presentations will be added on the program page in
the next few weeks.
☘ Connect with participants
When you fill in the registration form, no data will be shared publicly ;
if you want to let other people know that you will attend the event, feel
free to add your name on the participants list
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Knot_together#L…>
.
To start connecting with other attendees ahead of the conference, you can
also join our social channels
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Knot_together#S…>
.
We’re looking forward to seeing you soon at the Celtic Knot! If you have
any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me, Daria Cybulska or
Richard Nevell.
For the organizing team,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi all,
The registration for Wiki Workshop 2022 [1] is now open. The event is
virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC and as part of The Web
Conference 2022 [2]. The plenary parts of the event will be recorded
and shared publicly afterwards.
Wiki Workshop is the largest Wikimedia research event of the year (so
far;) that the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation co-organizes
with our Research Fellow, Bob West (EPFL). This year, Srijan Kumar
(Georgia Tech) joined the organizing team as well.:) The event brings
together scholars and researchers from across the world who are
interested in or are actively engaged with research and development on
the Wikimedia projects.
While the details of the schedule are to be finalized and posted in
the coming week, we expect to generally follow the format of 2021 [3].
This year we received research submissions from more than 20 countries
and have accepted 27 research papers whose authors will present the
work as part of the workshop (If you are an author of an accepted
paper: congrats!:) . Our keynote speaker is Larry Lessig [4] and we
will have a panel to reflect on the decade anniversary of SOPA/PIPA,
moderated by Erik Moeller (Freedom of the Press). And of course, all
the music, games, etc. will remain. :)
If you are interested in participating in the live event, please
indicate your interest by filling out [5]. Anyone is encouraged to
register: you don't have to be a researcher. In the registration form,
please explain why attending the live event will support you in your
work on the Wikimedia projects and beyond.
If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Best,
Leila
[1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/
[2] https://www2022.thewebconf.org/
[3] https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/#schedule
[4] https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig
[5] (privacy statement for the Google form survey [6])
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctlkUv8FasB2Nc4RvThnxAbjPzUwmnxB2…
[6] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Wiki_Workshop_Registration_Priv…
--
Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
We want to inform you that the submission deadline for the LinkedArchives
workshop in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Theory
and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022) was extended one week.
Please submit your contributions by **June 12**.
Best,
Carla Teixeira Lopes
(on behalf of the Organizing Committee)
----------
We are thrilled to announce that the 2nd edition of the International
Workshop on Archives and Linked Data (https://linkedarchives.inesctec.pt/)
will be run in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Theory
and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022) (http://tpdl2022.dei.unipd.it/
).
The workshop aims to gather researchers and specialists who are engaged in
initiatives that cross Archives and the Semantic Web and those planning
similar initiatives in cultural heritage organizations.
We'd love to have your contributions, so please take a look at the call:
https://linkedarchives.inesctec.pt/#submission.
Please note that *29 May 2022* is the submission deadline.
The workshop will include invited talks, presentations of papers and demos,
as well as an opportunity for participants to meet and discuss latest
developments and opportunities in the field.
TPDL 2022 aims to be an in-presence event in Padua, Italy. TPDL will
publish the proceedings of the workshops and the doctoral consortium in the
CEUR Workshop Series. Extended versions of the best papers will be selected
to be published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
(JOCCH).
We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in September!
Hello,
Is there a way to force the re-scraping of a Mix'n'match catalog ? The
catalog of a database I manage
(https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/1679) has not been scrapped
since one month while the website is regularly updated.
Subsidiary question : Is there a way to set the frequency of the
re-scraping of a catalog ?
Thank you,
--
Jean-Baptiste Pressac
Conception, traitement et analyse de bases de données
Production et diffusion de corpus numériques
Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique
Unité d’Appui et de Recherche (UAR) 3554
Bureau C310
20 rue Duquesne
CS 93837
29238 Brest cedex 3
tel : +33 (0)2 98 01 68 95
fax : +33 (0)2 98 01 63 93
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours Tuesday, 2022-06-07. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1654642800>.
To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer
research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
-
You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour. However, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation